chopo

chopo m (plural chopos)

1. Obsolete form of choupo.

Inherited from Old Spanish, possibly through an earlier form *llopo, from Vulgar Latin *plōppus, with metathesis from Latin pōpulus. Likely influenced by Portuguese choupo, if not simply borrowed from it.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃopo/ [ˈt͡ʃo.po]

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• Rhymes: -opo
• Syllabification: cho‧po

chopo m (plural chopos)

1. A poplar tree, often the black poplar (Populus nigra)

   Coordinate term: álamo

• “chopo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014